Knowledge, attitude and perception on OPMD among oral medicine specialists

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Oral potentially malignant disorders are common oral mucosal lesions associated with tobacco habit mainly and few congenital, immunologically mediated mucocutaneous disorders with increased risk for malignant transformation diseases. Aim: The aim of this questionnaire study is to assess the awareness of evidence based medical management of OPMDs among oral medicine specialists in a university setting. The questionnaire based study was conducted among 100 participants. A self-administered questionnaire was used. Sampling was done by convenient sampling. The study was done in a university setting. The questionnaires were distributed to the post graduates and teaching faculties with varied teaching experience in Oral medicine speciality. It was circulated using an online search software, google form and the response was collected through it. CONCLUSION: The collected data was ranked as good, average and below average and the data collected were stored and results were analysed by SPSS software. Out of 100, the need of educational programs exclusively on topical therapeutics in management of oral mucosal lesions to be initiated from the beginning of post-graduation course and educational programs on current updates of topical therapeutics is essential for Oral Medicine Specialist to ensure proper treatment protocol in dental practice.